Your much appreciated ISP has quite a large customer base these days.
It only takes one of them to get a worm/virus/whatever.
There is a global, and effective, convention (well, several) by which people can notify the appropriate ISP that someone appears to have a worm/virus and needs to get a 'talking to'.
If you know who the ISP is, bounce a copy of the spam to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and someone appropriate will deliver that 'talking to' (and technical support to help remove the worm, as appropriate.
If you aren't sure of the source of the spam in other cases, the trick is to ask your own ISP for help in advising the ISP concerned, and/or use a tool like 'SpamCop' to do an automatic determination-and-notification for you. (http://www.spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml)
Internode offers free-of-charge virus and spam filtering to its customer base, but there are plenty of other ways that an insufficiently 'protected' windows user can pick up a 'bug' - including files handed to them by others, and clicking into sufficiently...cough... 'interesting' web sites with code in them to exploit one of the hundreds of serious bugs in Windows Internet Explorer.
Until we live in the fine world where people use Firefox or Safari instead of "IE" and everyone else has moved to a Macintosh, this sort of pain will persist at a low level in the Internet... and the above is the manner in which you can take useful individual action to help to reduce the effects of same.
Regards, Simon
Terry Neumann wrote:
Greetings fellow soaring people,
I may be alone in this, but I seem to keep on receiving daily little treasures of unwanted spam and thinly disguised virus attacks. Usually it is limited to three or four per day, but it is as annoying as it is frustrating. Sometimes the "sender" is a hotmail address, at other times it suggest a more legitimate sender whose address is being "used". It has been been a pretty regular event since the great spam attack on this list earlier this year.
Why then raise this matter on this list?
The common factor in all of them is a reference to our much appreciated ISP who so generously makes this list possible.
Here is a snippet from my Mailwasher log in respect of one of the more recent gifts:
"[Mailman Site List] Re: document - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
Here is the "content" of yet another message received tonight:
You got a new message.
++++ Attachment: No Virus found ++++ F-Secure AntiVirus - www.f-secure.com
=========================================================================== _______________________________________________ Mailman site list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/mailman
If I am the only recipient, then it's surely my problem and mine alone.
If others on the list are also being favoured with similar presentations, then I wonder if there is something which might be able to be done on a higher level.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on the matter,
Terry
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